Data specific to Roses (Edit)
Bloom size: Large: 4-5"
Bloom shape: Cupped
Petal count: full: 26-40 petals
Rose bloom color: Pink blend
Extra Bloom Info: In clusters
Rebloom: Good
Class: Tea
Extra Color Info: Pink, with yellow highlights
Growth Habit: Medium-tall to tall, 3-8 feet
Fragrance: Strong
Hybridizer & year: H. Bernede, 1857
Optimal growing zones: USDA zone 5 and warmer
Awards: Earth-Kind Rose

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Plant Height: 3-8 feet
Plant Spread: 3-5 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Flower Time: Spring
Summer
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Tip
Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Child plants: one child plant

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Alternative cultivar names:
  • 'Duchesse de Brabant'
  • 'Countess Bertha'
  • 'The Shell Rose'
  • 'Comtesse de Labarthe'

Common names
  • Rose

Photo Gallery
Location: Orange County, California
Date: 2020-02-14
Location: Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-07-15
19th-century exhibition garden created by John Bartram’s grandd
Location: KYLE
Date: 2019-04-12
Location: Kyle, Texas
Date: 2017-09-04
Lovely old rose
Photo by ingrid_vc
Location: My garden in northeast Texas
Date: 2021-07-26
Location: Kyle
Date: 2018-09-28
A fragrant, old-fashioned beauty
Location: Kyle
Date: 2018-09-24
Location: Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-07-15
19th-century exhibition garden created by John Bartram’s grandd
Location: Riverbanks Botanical Garden - Columbia, SC
Date: 2016-10-21
Location: illustration by P. Seguin-Bertault of Roses 'Comtesse de Labarthe' (top) and 'Souvenir de J. B. Guillot' (bottom)
Date: c. 1912
from 'Les plus belles roses au début du XXe siècle', 1912
Location: My garden in northeast Texas
Date: 2012 Oct. 23

Date: 2009-11-03
Photo courtesy Antique Rose Emporium. Used with permission.
Location: Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-07-15
19th-century exhibition garden created by John Bartram’s grandd
Location: test  garden 
Date: 2014-10-10
Location: My garden in northeast Texas
Date: 2012  Oct 23
Location: Orlando, Central Florida, zone 9b
Date: 2009-03-13
Duchesse De Brabant
Location: Orlando, Central Florida, zone 9b
Date: 2007-11-24
Tea Rose Duchesse De Brabant
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Comments:
  • Posted by Calif_Sue (Sebastopol, CA - Zone 9a) on Feb 10, 2013 10:31 PM concerning plant:
    Noted by Antique Rose Emporium:
    "Teddy Roosevelt made this rose his favorite, often wearing a bud or flower as a boutonniere. It is very nearly our greatest favorite, too. The cupped pink flowers have a cabbagey roundness to them, as if they were picked from a luscious old rose painting. Nearly continuously in bloom, these roses can be counted on for a rich whiff of fragrance at absolutely any time of the day, even in the hot Texas sun. The apple green leaves are slightly wavy."
  • Posted by Avedon (NE Tex - Zone 8a) on Oct 23, 2012 7:11 PM concerning plant:
    A wonderful tea rose with a fragrance that has been described as "raspberry sherbet."

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